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A Simple Three-Item Agenda for "Occupy Wall Street/We Are 99%"
By Charles H. Smith, October 31, 2011
There are only three things--and only these three--that will cripple Wall Street's democracy-killing concentration of wealth and power:
1. Transfer the 99%'s money out of Wall Street and the Too Big To Fail Banks
2. Remove campaign contributions from our democracy in a way that the corporate legalist lackeys in the Supreme Court cannot overturn, i.e. entirely publicly financed elections
3. Abolish Wall Street's dealer, pusher and protector, the Federal Reserve.
My reasoning is very simple:
Everything else people want to see happen cannot happen if:
1) Wall Street and the SDI (systemically dangerous institutions) a.k.a. too big to fail banks, control most Americans' financial assets and debts
2) The Federal Reserve exists to enable and protect the SDI's wealth and power via Primary Dealers, the discount window and other pusher/dealer mechanisms
3) Wall Street and the other SDIs can use the billions of dollars they skim from our accounts, IRAs, 401Ks and pensions to buy political influence and protection from regulation and competition.
Therefore these are the necessary foundations of any real change.
As long as Wall Street and the other SDIs control much of the nation's financial markets, assets and debts, and the Federal Reserve exists to protect and enable their predation and parasitic skimming, they will have the means to reap billions in profits which can then be funneled into our cash-corrupted political system of for-sale toadies and apparatchiks.
The only real leverage we have is our money and our compliance. Leaving our money in Wall Street and the Too Big to fail banks enables their dominance. Leaving our money in checking accounts, money market funds, savings accounts and brokerage accounts, and then using credit and debit cards issued by the SDIs, is to remain deeply complicit in their dominance.
This concept is now entering the cultural dialog, for example this recent entry on Zero Hedge:
Want To Defeat The Banks? Stop Participating In The System!
-Charles H. Smith, A Simple Three-Item Agenda for "Occupy Wall Street/We Are 99%" (October 31, 2011)
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and many others who remain unnamed/anonymous.
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Occupy Vermont - Burlington on Facebook
More About Occupy:
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Together
Occupy Together on Twitter
Carl Herman, Nonpartisan Examiner
Occupy Rainbow Lake:
Occupy Rainbow Lake on MeetUp
Occupy Rainbow Lake on Facebook
Occupy Rainbow Lake on Twitter
Other Local Occupy Communities:
Occupy Saranac Lake, NY on Facebook
Occupy Potsdam, NY on Facebook
Occupy Vermont - Burlington on Facebook
More About Occupy:
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Together
Occupy Together on Twitter
Carl Herman, Nonpartisan Examiner
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